About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Friday, June 15, 2007

June 15......

June 15 is the 166th (167th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 199 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Justice "When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick." — Cesar Chavez

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Social and Economic Irresponsibility "We didn't squander a surplus. We never had it." — John W. Snow, George W. Bush's treasury secretary

Thought for the day: "Who to himself is law, no law doth need."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 763 B.C.E. - Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

● 923 - Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.

● 1184 - King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the battle of Fimreite.

● 1215 - King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England.

● 1219 - Dannebrog - oldest national flag in the world - and flag of Denmark. According to legend, fell from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse (now Tallinn) in Estonia, and turned the Danes' luck. King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark.

● 1246 - With the death of Duke Frederick II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.

● 1686 - In Boston, the King's Chapel was organized. It was the first Anglican church established in colonial New England.

● 1752 - Benjamin Franklin experimented by flying a kite during a thunderstorm. The result was a little spark that showed the relationship between lightning and electricity. {We are lucky he didn't kill himself. Don't try this at home kiddies.}

● 1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.

● 1776 - Delaware Separation Day - Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.

● 1779 - General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx

● 1785 - Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight (1783), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever casualties of an air crash when their hot air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.

● 1804 - New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document. It deals with manner of choosing president and vice president. Starts practice of running mates.

● 1859 - Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between U.S. and British/Canadian settlers.

● 1860 - 1st White settlement in Idaho (Franklin)

● 1862 - Gen JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan"

● 1864 - American Civil War: Siege of Petersburg begins.

● 1864 - Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.8 km²) around Arlington Mansion, General Robert E. Lee's plantation, are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

● 1866 - C H F Peters discovers asteroid #88 Thisbe

● 1866 - Prussia attacks Austria

● 1869 - Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY

● 1871 - Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a US collegiate law school

● 1898 - George Claude Etievant, French typographer and anarchist, condemned to death for the murder of a sentry, and the injury of another, at the Berzeliu street police station. He had previously, in 1892, received a five year sentence for providing dynamite for Ravachol, and again another five year prison sentence for a series of articles he published in "Le libertaire." His sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life. He died a few years later in the penal colony in Guyana.

● 1911 - The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. was incorporated in the state of New York. The company was later renamed International Business Machines (IBM) Corp.

● 1913 - U.S. troops finally end the Moro Uprising in the Philippines by exterminating 600 men, women and children in an assault on the same crater where an entire community was similarly liquidated on 8 March 1906.

● 1916 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.

● 1917 - Anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman are arrested and charged conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for World War I military service. Both were deported from the U.S. after their prison sentences.

● 1917 - Great Britain pledged the release of all the Irish captured during the Easter Rebellion of 1916.

● 1918 - French anarchist Jules Durand declared innocent of 1910 murder charges after his case had been reopened. Unfortunately, while incarcerated, Durand - - forcibly subdued in a strait jacket for 40 days -- had become insane and spent the rest of his life in an asylum.

● 1918 - 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania

● 1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete first nonstop transatlantic flight at Clifden, County Galway, Ireland. They won a prize of $50,000 in the process.

● 1920 - Duluth lynchings in Minnesota

● 1923 - Argentine anarchist Kurt Wilkens (Gustav Wilckens), jailed for the assassination of the "Killer of Patagonia," Col. Valera, is in turn assassinated while sleeping in his cell by the right wing nationalist, Perez Millan.

● 1979 - Greater Europe Mission moved its headquarters from Chicago to Wheaton, Illinois. Founded in 1949, GEM is an evangelical missionary agency involved in church planting and evangelism in over a dozen European countries.

● 1982 - Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat

● 1982 - 450 occupy uranium mine for three days in anti-nuclear protest, Honeymoon, South Australia.

● 1983 - The U.S. Supreme Court reinforced its position on abortion by striking down state and local restriction on abortions.

● 1985 - U.S. Navy diver Robert D. Stethem was killed by the hijackers of Flight 847.

● 1989 - In Shanghai three Chinese workers were sentenced to death for setting fire to a train during a pro-democracy protest.

● 1989 - Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth

● 1991 - Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo errupts

● 1991 - Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, the Bloc Québécois.

● 1992 - The United States Supreme Court rules in US vs. Alvarez-Machain that it is permissible for the USA to abduct suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries. {This means even if those suspects have never been in the US they are subject to US laws.}

● 1992 - Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC)

● 1992 - U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle instructed a student to spell "potato" with an "e" on the end during a spelling bee. He claimed he had relied on a faulty flash card that had been written by the student's teacher. {Being the intellectual midget he was didn't help either.}

● 1994 - Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.

● 1995 - During the O. J. Simpson murder trial, O. J. was asked to put on a pair of gloves. The gloves were said to have been worn by the killer on the night of the murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. The gloves appeared not to fit. {It was never noted that he had donned a pair of disposable gloves first making his hands artificially large and difficult to fit anything over them. The commiserate liar he was allowed him to overact this to the point everyone believed the gloves didn't fit.}

● 1996 - Singer Ella Fitzgerald died at age 79.

● 1996 - In response to an underpublicized nuclear accident the previous month, six people are arrested at a protest demanding the shutdown of the Point Beach nuclear power plant near Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

● 1996 - The Irish Republican Army set of a truck bomb in a retail district in Manchester England. The explosion wounded more than 200 people and devastates a large part of the city centre.

● 1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state prison inmates are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

● 1999 - South Korean naval forces sank a North Korean torpedo boat during an exchange in the disputed Yellow Sea.

● 2000 - British marines leave Sierra Leone; The major contingent of the British military task force sent to help restore order in Sierra Leone leaves the country.

● 2002 - Near earth asteroid 2002 MN misses our planet by 75,000 miles (120,000 km) about one third the distance to the moon

● 2005 - The autopsy on Terri Schiavo was released, backing the contention of her husband, Michael, that she was in a persistent vegetative state.

● 2006 - A divided U.S. Supreme Court said that judges cannot throw out evidence collected by police who have search warrants but do not properly announced their arrival. {This is extends the "no-knock" rule to new lengths.}

● Roman Catholic:● Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ)● St. Abraham● St. Adelaide● St. Aleydis● St. Alice● St. Benildis● St. Crescentia, martyr● Sts. Domitian & Hadelin● St. Dulas● St. Edburga of Winchester (d. 960)● St. Germaine Cousin, (d. 1601), patron of shepherdesses and of victims of child abuse● St. Hesychius● St. Landelin (7th century)● St. Lybe● St. Modestus, martyr● St. Melan● St. Orsisius● St. Trillo● St. Vitus, martyr and patron of actors and epileptics● St. Vouga● Bls. Thomas Green, Thomas Scryven, and Thomas Reding

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 2 (Civil Date: June 15)● St. Nicephorus the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople.● Great-Martyr John the New of Sochi, who suffered at Belgrade.● New-Martyr Demetrius of Philadelphia.● Hieromartyr Photinus (Pothimus), Bishop of Lyons.● New-Martyr Constantine of the Hagarenes (Mt. Athos. .

● Greek Calendar:● Hieromartyr Erasmus of Ochrid, who reposed in peace, and 8,000 Martyrs with him.● New-Martyr John of Trebizond.

● Eastern Orthodox:● St. Augustine of Hippo

● Commemoration of Evelyn Underhill (Anglican mystic and poet)

● Roman Empire – ninth and final day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta

● Commemoration of William Adams (Miura Anjin 三浦按針) a man shipwrecked in Japan in the 1600s, and whom James Clavell's "Shogun" was based upon

● Arkansas : Admission Day (1836)

● Denmark : Flag Day/Valdemar Day (1219)

● Idaho : Pioneer Day (1910)

● Korea : Farmer's Day-day to transplant rice seeds

● Malawi Freedom Day

● Oregon : Treaty Day (1846)

● Elder Abuse Awareness Day

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"● Paraguay : Chaco Peace Day (1935) - ( Sunday )● US : Father's Day (Remind the guy how much you care) - ( Sunday )

IN FICTION

● 1889 - Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adv "The Stockbroker's Clerk"

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